 In 1989, he won his first Superbike World Championship race in New Zealand, the first ever British rider to win at a World Superbike event and came runner up in the British Formula TT Championship.In 1990 he won the British Superbike Championship, as well as winning the 1992 FIM Endurance World Championship, the 1993 European Superbike Championship and the 1999 Endurance World Championship once more.He was a regular although only completing two full-time seasons in the Superbike World Championship every year from to with 2 wins, 9 further podiums, and a championship best of 6th in .